Friday of the long weekend

Today we organized the books by size to keep our classroom clean. We did story time today about not hitting people with our hands and other things that our hands should be used for, then we made our own pages so that we can make a classroom book. Quiet reading happens now every morning. We had gym. and we talked about healthy foods to bring for lunch. Have a great long weekend!

Thursday August 30th

Today we did a puzzle piece, our picture went in the middle of the puzzle piece then drew things that were important to us around it, we cut it out and Ms Adamson is going to make it into a big puzzle on our bulletin board. We had our daily circle passing our sweetgrass and had our final name challenge, Aleeza was able to get everyone's name! In math we worked on patterns. We read a book about belonging because we ALL BELONG here in this classroom. We did some writing about what we learned yesterday from our special presenter from the Dental Bus. Grade 2s also wrote about what they wished their teacher knew about them, grade ones worked on their letter 'a' and some cutting and gluing work. We also did some partner reading in the morning and silent reading in the afternoon. Now we are off to gym. We'll see you soon.

Special Visit

The dental bus came today and gave us lots of information about how to take care of our teeth, they gave us toothbrushes, and they also gave us permission forms to go to the dental bus when they come to visit over the school year. Students can go to the bus for free with a signed permission form! We learned about eating healthy foods, and that unhealthy food should only be for occasional treats as they can be bad for our teeth. In math we worked on making different types of patterns. We also did some writing, grade ones wrote sentences with Mrs. Mazurak and grade twos wrote about their summer with a picture with Ms. Adamson. We did silent reading today, added two days to our calendar as we ran out of time yesterday, did our daily circle time and ended it with a challenge, most of us are able to get nearly everyone's name. Now we are off to music, see you soon!

Tuesday August 28

Today we did math. The grade 1s showed Ms. Mazurak their progress from Kindergarten while Grade 2s made patterns out of shapes with Ms. Adamson- we had partners and took turns guessing which pattern their friend had made. We started science and started learning about our 5 senses smelling hearing feeling tasting, sight. We did lots of silent reading today. We listened to a story about a mouse who got a new purse and wanted to share it with her class really bad, but she got in trouble because she was sharing it during class time and finally we did our daily circle. We are headed to gym now! Talk to you later!

Monday AGAIN!

Today in Math the Grade 2s worked on patterns! They built them and then drew them in their math books. We have continued working on our calendar, we are already up to 8 whole days! We did some writing today we turned our 'Brown Bear Brown Bear story' into a story about ourselves. We did a word search which some of us are bringing home to work on. We took some time to read today. And finally we talked more about filling people's buckets and we sorted through pictures to show which ones were bucket fillers, and which ones were bucket dippers. Again today we did circle time, afterwards we did our challenge to see if anyone could remember everybody's name Myrah and Olivia were able to do it!

Last day of our first FULL WEEK

Today we started our day with silent reading. Then we ripped up colors- red, orange, yellow, green, and blue and violet to make a rainbow. ROYGBIV. This will end our review of colors. We did circle time, we talked about how we feel today- this is what we are going to do every circle time so Ms. Adamson knows how we are feeling. We did the calendar and finished off our first full week. We had some story time.  Today we also had some free choice time where we could do dot to dots, easy medium or hard and we also had easy, medium or hard word searches. We also did an art walk to see everybody's buckets. Then we chose which one we did the best, and Ms. Adamson is going to put them up on the wall.

Thursday August 23rd

Good Afternoon!

Today we learned more about how to be a bucket filler. Being a bucket filler means doing nice things for other people to fill their bucket, when we do mean things their bucket slowly empty's and they don't feel happy. We all want to be bucket fillers not spillers!

We also worked more on our number and color recognition, as well as our writing. Grade 2s were able to work all by ourselves while the rest of us Grade ones worked with Ms. Adamson. In Math the Grade 2s made our own 100s charts and then learned a game called 'Race to 100' where we used adding and subtracting in our goal to reach 100.

It's Thursday! We are almost done our first full week of school! Students come to school tomorrow well rested and ready for a bit of Friday Fun!

Tuesday August 22

Good Afternoon Parents!

Today we read some of our classroom books with a partner. The Grade 2's are starting to make some Grade 1 buddies and are helping them with their reading! We also had some writing time today looking back at our 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear' story and writing color and animal words. In the afternoon we listened to a story called 'Have You Filled a Bucket Today' talking about being a kind person and a friend. Then we got a bucket printout to color with oil pastels, we tried to use every color in the box. Finally we had gym today- for those who were here yesterday it was our second time. The rest of us met Mr. Draper and used the skipping ropes and played games.

The day with half a class

Today we colored by numbers to work on learning our color words and number recognition. We read the Kissing Hand and we talked about how he felt after his first day of school and how we felt after our first day of school. We also did circle time where we tell everyone our names and we also told each other about our weekend, only one person is allowed to talk at a time while everyone else listens. We worked on writing slanted lines and built up to writing letters - XAZV. We kept working on our calendar and our days of the week. We also started counting up how many days of school we have had. We are already up to 4!

To those of you who were missing today, we are excited to share some of the work we did today and hope you had a good celebration. 

Monday August 20

Today we finally went outside to play! We sorted the pencil crayons by color to keep them nice and organized. We started our calendar which we will be working on everyday from now on. We did circle time where we told each other what makes us happy. We listened to the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear and then put the animals in order and colored them to match the book. And finally we had music class to finish off the day.

Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow!

To those of you who will be celebrating Eid tomorrow, Eid Mubarak. 

Ms. Adamson

End of Week One

Boy, that was quick!

Parents, today we went to music class and met Ms Fung who will be teaching us music for the rest of the year. Then we traced our hands, cut them out and decorated them to be posted on our hangers so we always remember where to hang our things. We also spent some time today writing and drawing pictures to tell Ms. Adamson a bit more about ourselves. Finally we spent some time getting to know each other with a fun activity where we had to find someone in the class who had done or liked certain things. This helped us feel more comfortable with each other and get to know each other a little better. 

Students and Parents, I hope that you have a fantastic weekend. Get lots of sleep and come in on Monday ready to learn. 

Ms. Adamson

First Day of School

Hello parents.

Our first day of school was a success! Today we went on a scavenger hunt around the school to find important places that we need to be able to find like the music room, the washroom, the learning commons, the gym and the office. We were able to answer clues about each room to figure out where we were going next. We also showed Ms. Adamson all of the things that we know how to do like: write our name, write letters and write numbers. We drew her pictures to show her what we did on our summer vacation and some of us also wrote sentences about our pictures. We learned sign language to ask to go to the bathroom and to get water. Finally we did a sharing circle to tell all of our classmates our names and a little bit about ourselves. Lots of us made new friends and caught up with old ones.

Students, I am very excited to see you all again tomorrow!

Ms. Adamson

Good Morning

Good morning to those of you who dropped your children off this morning and decided to check out our classroom blog!

Everyday I, with the help of the students, will update you on the goings on of our Grade 1/2 classroom including exciting upcoming events, what we are learning throughout the day, and any reminders or notices for parents. I hope that you will continue to check our blog on a regular basis in order to stay updated on your child's learning and what is going on around the school.

I am excited to have your child in my class and cannot wait to get started! We are going to have a great school year.

Your child's teacher,

Ms. Adamson